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Moto2 Star Senna Agius' Australian GP Podium Breakdown & Thai GP Preview: MotoGP Pit Talk · Pit Talk

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Shuie's wildlife and a start line burnout. How else do
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: we describe the Australian Grand Prix at Philip Island. Well,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: i'm your host, Rinita Vanmullen, and of course we have
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: our very own Moto GP Dundee Matt Clayton, Matt, how
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: are ya? How was your Philip Island Moto GP experience?
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: It's funny, Brude, when you go through that intro, it
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: suddenly struck me that there were about fifteen completely bizarre
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: things that happened over the course of the weekend, from
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: whether to wildlife to any other number of things in between.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: It was a pretty memorable one and in the end
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: the start line burnout that you were referring to actually
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: set the scene for a pretty fun race in the end,
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: because certainly in live and things on Sunday. But all
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: in all, a very very good Australian Grand Prix. But
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: what do you expect when you've got one of the best,
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: if not the best motorcycle track.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: In the world.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to be down there, isn't it.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: It's hard to not want to start talking about Mark
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Marquez because it was such an impact on how the
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: whole weekend played out, But let's push that to the side.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Let's build everything up for everyone. So we got on
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: the ground on Wednesday and it was sunny. It was beautiful,
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: it was nice and warm, and Thursday, same thing there was.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Everybody was out and about. It was exciting. But what
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: was the main point of conversation The wind and the
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: rain that was forecast for Friday. And that's exactly what
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: we got with that cancelation of the practices in the morning.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: But all those fans, we were sat in the media center,
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: all those fans down Gardener straight who had their ponchos
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: on their brollies and they were braving it. Oh I
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: take my hat off to them because it was wet
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  Speaker 1: and wild on Friday, wasn't it. Oh?
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Sure was the absolute best fans. And the thing is,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: if you've been to Philip Island more than once, you
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: know that the easiest way to pack is just tip
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: your entire wardrobe into your car or into your whatever
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: bag you can find that's big enough, and you know
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: you're going to use everything over the course of the weekend.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: So I went from having my head burnt on Thursday
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: at San Remo doing the homecoming ride to sitting in
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  Speaker 2: the media sent to shivering with you on Friday. So
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: probably need to wear a hat or have more hair,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: but that's my problem. But it's always a mixed bag
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: down there, and you know there is going to be
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: a wet day or some wet sessions, and I guess
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: fortunately with the way it turned out, the day you
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: can most afford to lose is the Friday, or at
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: least a session from that. But because of that uncertainty,
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: it completely changed the way the rest of the weekend
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: played out. Because Friday afternoon practice too, everyone thought it
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: was going to rain about two minutes into it, so
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: everyone went out there like it was the first lapse
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  Speaker 2: of Q two and they're trying to put a lap
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  Speaker 2: on the board. The rain held off. We had rabbits
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: and geese and all sorts of things running across the track,
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  Speaker 2: and then we actually got a sprint away on the Saturday,
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: which was fantastic compared to last year. But you certainly
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: get the full box of weather down at Phillip Isolon.
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: We wouldn't have it any other way. And I do
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: like the commentary from a lot of our European friends
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: who have never set foot on philipp Island, saying all
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: this would be solved if you came here in February
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: or March, if you've been to Philipiland in February March,
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: which I know you have and I certainly have as well.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: It can be thirty five degrees and a howling northerly
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  Speaker 2: going down the strait, so that's no fun.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: And it could also rain a lot, so that's the
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: perils of having an amazing racetrack on the side of
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: a cliff next to the ocean. But yeah, we certainly
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: got the full weather experience, but at least it got
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: better as days went on.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Well, we got the full weather experience, but Jack Miller
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: got the full wildlife local animal encounter experience. He didn't
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: even have to go to the petting zoo for this one.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Poor Jack, he did not have a great weekend, Diddy.
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: Only Jack could have a weekend like this. And it's
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: even more ridiculous because he's the only Australian on the
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: motor GP grid. All the local animals just wanted to
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: come and say hello to it or something. I don't
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: know what was going on, but fortunately no one hit
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: one of the cape baron geese, So that was a
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: good result for the geese and for the riders because
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: those things are not small. But of course there was
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: a rabbit on the track that Jack hit, and of
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: course there was a seagull that flew straight through the
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: fairy of his katim in the sprint. It's like these
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: things had a magnet for Jack and Jack's bike. But
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: it was one of those weekends where and I think
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: you were at this on Sunday afterwards he began his
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: press briefing was at least I didn't kill anything today,
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: and just typical Jack. If anyone's going to take it
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: in the right spirit, it's going to be him. But
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: my goodness, like if you're playing Jack Miller Catastrophe bingo,
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: you would have filled your cart up pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite quote from him on the weekend was, I
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: just hope the RSPCA don't come after me.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: That may or may not have been a website of
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: a headliner on a Sorry on Fox Sports website on
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: Saturday night, because it was one of those ones that
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: was far too good that I had to use it.
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  Speaker 2: But only Jack would come up with something like that,
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  Speaker 2: So full credit to him for keeping a sense of humor.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Apart from having obviously terrible situations on the weekend with
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: these animals, it was cool to see Jack really get
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: involved with everything to do with the Australian Grand Prix
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: and his home round you know early this year, and
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: he even said to us in our podcast he was
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: expecting it to be his final one on to GP grid,
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: but obviously he's not. But he went all out. He
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: had a special design helmet, he did the homecoming ride
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: with Mick Dooin. There was so many activations that he
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: was out all over the weekend. So I think it
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: was really good for the Aussie fans to see such
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: a positive upbeat Jack Miller, even though the results on
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: track were just nowhere this weekend.
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look to take our listeners behind the curtain
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit on Sunday. After the race, all of
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: the riders will come through a designated area where they
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: deal with the TV press and then the print website
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: press and Katim's press officer said Jack's likely to be
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: about forty five minutes late because as soon as he
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: finished the race, he wanted to be in amongst the
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: crowd and most of the stuff that Jack was signing
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: or giving me. He gave away pretty much all of
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: his kit that he had at the time and was
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: getting hold of hats and everything else. I don't think
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: anybody left Philip Eiler without a selfie or a signature,
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: or a piece of memorabilia or a handshake. He tries
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  Speaker 2: to be everything to everybody. And look, he's not employed
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  Speaker 2: to be an ambassador for this bought in Australia, as
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: he's employed to ride a motorbike, but the fact that
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: he does it so willingly and he's so thankful for
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: all the people that come out and cheer on all
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: the riders. But it's a privilege having a home race.
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: I think he's a fantastic ambassador for the sport and
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think there would have been too many fans
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  Speaker 2: that left Philip Island on Sunday afternoon disappointed because he
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: just tries to give so much of his time make
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: all these schlub journalists wait in the press center. That's
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: completely fine, Jack, I think you did a fantastic job
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: with the fans and there'll be a lot of very
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  Speaker 2: happy people on Sunday as driving back to Melbourne.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about other happy riders on track and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to start with Jorge Martin. He was our
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: polsitter for the weekend set a flying lap when you know,
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: like you said earlier, we weren't sure if it was
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  Speaker 1: going to rain. The clouds were looming on Saturday, and
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: then he also went on to win the sprint on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday as well. So not about continuing on with his
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: championship title fight for Jojey Martine, and he said that
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: he seemed really comfortable up until Sunday, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. And I think look, everyone knows how
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: good Mark is on these left handed circuits. We detail
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: that and the lead up. But as much as it
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: was a third straight Australian GP for ju Haete where
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: he didn't convert pole to a win, I think he's
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: probably the biggest winner out of the weekend because doubled's
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: championship lead from ten points to twenty and we've now
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: got very much a ticking clock. I reckon with this
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: World Championship in that the number of points available and
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: the time that Peco Banyaya has to try and eradicate
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: this deficit. Now you know we've got one hundred and
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: eleven points left. Jugees got a twenty point lead over Peco.
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like much, but that's becoming really significant
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  Speaker 2: simply because if he's able to outscore Peko by nine
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  Speaker 2: points in each of the next two race weekends, so
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  Speaker 2: Thailand and Malaysia coming up after that, the championship won't
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: even get to Valencia because he would have won it.
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: And for context, look, he took ten points out of
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: Banya at Phillip Island, so it shows you that it
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: can be done. We know how good the decaddies are,
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: how closely out of the podium most of the time,
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: if not winning races. But it's very much in Juhei
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: hands now in that Peco now needs to almost hope
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: for a mistake. And I don't know about you, but
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: the whole I have last year, and I've said this
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: before on the Podlin, I had trust issues last year.
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: I didn't trust that he was actually going to be
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: able to convert when he had the speed so for
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: him to Yeah, he didn't win the Grand Prix on Sunday,
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: but he's the biggest winner of the weekend for me
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: because he's just tightening the screws here and it's getting
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: to a point where if Banoa has one more mistake
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: or one more ropie weekend that might just about be it.
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: And I think all has playing from a position of
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: advantage here, So really good weekend for him, and over
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: one lap at Philip Island, he's shown for the last
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: three years that he can just redefine what's possible now.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: And I did think we might get a one twenty
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: six in qualifying had it have actually stayed dry and
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: he would have done the proper lead up, but he
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: still had plenty of pace in hand over everybody else,
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: didn't they.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: Oh you could see it on track even on Saturday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: He just looked invincible is the word that I think
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: I want to use. Yeah, just incredible.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: And it's so cool for.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Us having to get to experience it this year. And
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: obviously we watch it on TV like everybody who listens,
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: and but just to see it in person is, Oh,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: it's a whole another level. But I want to touch
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: on Peco Vannoya because you wrote a story for Fox
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: that I thought was really interesting in the fact that
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: it's almost like he's alluding to that crash with Alex
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Marquez at Aragon earlier in the year as to why
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: he's not closer in the title fight. Now, Peco was
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: up there and thereabouts all weekends, but he wasn't the
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: man at all. So this is what makes me think,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: is he starting to use this I want to say
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: it's an excuse. Is he starting to use it as
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: mind games or is this the pressure now really getting
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: to Peco.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's putting a little bit of an asterisk
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: on things from his perspective. I mean, let's deal with
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: the Australian weekend. For starters. We know that Martin is
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: the better of those two riders around that track, so
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: it did to me feel like he was in damage
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: limitation the whole weekkend. He was literally trying to hang on.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: And you know the fact that Martin scored ten points
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: more than Banyor over the weekend, I don't actually think
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: that reflected Martin's dominance relative to Banyua at that track
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: at that time. So in some ways it was good
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: safe for Pecco to get on the podium on Sunday.
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: But the piece that you're alluding to that I wrote
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: for Fox Sports Today actually on Wednesday, was that that
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: DNF that he had at Aragon, with that crash with
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: Alex Marquez that we remember, that's his lowest scoring weekend
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: in two years, and Martin scored twenty nine points that weekend,
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: Banyoy scored one. So when you're looking at a twenty
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: point championship deficit, look, one moment doesn't make a world championship.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: We know that, but that's a pretty significant moment in
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: the World championship because since Aragon there's been five rounds.
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: Banyai has actually outscored Martin across those five rounds, but
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: he's outscored him by a total of three points because
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Martin is always there. So you'd argue, over the course
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: of the season, banya has won eight Grand Prix. It's
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: more than he won in his champion winning seasons in
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: twenty two and twenty three. But you've got this really
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: outlier result from Aragod where he's scored one point. Hasn't
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: had a worse weekend than that in two years, and
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: he's continuing to pay the price for that. And that
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: was all fine when you had a lot of races
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: still left to go, but we're down to three rounds now,
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: So I think that's the frustration that he was alluding
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: to on Sunday at Philip Island in that Yeah, he's
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: crashed out of the lead of a sprint this year,
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: and he's left some other points on the table, but
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: I think he can accept those because they were his doing.
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: He's never quite forgotten what happened with Alex Marquez at Aragon,
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: and as I wrote in that story, I think he's
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: forgiven Marques because he was pretty strong in some of
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: the comments that he made directly afterwards. So yes, he
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: can forgive, but I don't think he can forget. And
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: it could be the thing that decides this title, a
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: race that happened in September.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: On Saturday afternoon. I believe after the sprint, Peko in
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: what we called the mix of the bull ring the
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: area that you're saying, well, all the writers come and
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: they debrief and talk to the press. He then said
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: that he goes, we have a lot of work to do.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Gicati has a lot of work to do to match
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: up to Juge Martin. After the sprint, so you could
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: really tell that even going into Sunday, I don't want
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: to say that he wasn't confident, but it's like he
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: was acting like he wasn't entirely confident, you know.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: I think not confidence is probably the right way to
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: describe it, because we've said this before on the Podlin
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Pecko's super methodical and that the moment that Friday FP
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: one got canceled and then rest of Friday was sketchy
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: and what's the wind doing and we get a wet
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: warm up. If everything, if all the variables are taken out,
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: and you have a perfectly sort of beninn weekend in
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: terms of weather and track conditions and no red flags,
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: Pecko's still the best guy on the grid because he
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: just methodically builds up to his pace and then once
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: he gets there, he stays there at this super high level.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: And we've seen there's been a couple of weekends this
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: year where he's been able to do that and no
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: one sees him for the entire weekend. I'm thinking Austria
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: was like that, Japan was like that. He got a
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: bit of a helping hand from Pedro Costa in Japan,
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: of course, but when things are just so like Peko
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: is pretty much unbeatable, but a bit of a mad
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: weekend like Philip Ireland was, and like a couple of
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: these next races coming up could be with whether in
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: Thailand and Malaysia and what have you. I think Martine's
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: maybe better at improvising when things aren't going absolutely perfectly,
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: whereas if you're holding every race in a laboratory that
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: I think Peco's pretty much the guy.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Let's touch on Pedro Acosta that I know I'm going
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: to leave everyone hanging on the mark markets thing, and
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: that's obviously what I want to do. But let's touch
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: on Pedro Acosta. Same thing for him. I was really
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: excited to see him this weekend, but just not the
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: results that he would after crashing out and dislocating his
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: shoulder I believe in and something about stretching his ligament
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: declared him unfit for Sunday's race, which was such a
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: shame because I really wanted to hear his thoughts and Matt,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: hopefully you can tell us a bit more about what
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: he did say, but hear his thoughts about riding this
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: track on a Moto GP bike because same with Peco.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Pedro was there or thereabouts all weekend,
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Like he definitely wasn't slow at Philip Island on Friday
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: and Saturday.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was another guy that definitely paid the price
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: for that first session being washed out on Friday, because
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: you forget he's the only rookie of the field, right,
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: so every time we go to these circuits, yes, he's
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: raced on them and he's probably one on them and
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Moto three and Moto two, but getting us to a
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: motor GP bike, particularly at a place as specific as
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Philip Island, is that first session. Losing that really hurt him.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: But this will make you set up right in your chair.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: The accident that he had in a sprint with three
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: laps to go, he high sighted so violently that he
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: actually dislocated his shoulder as the bike spat him off,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: and then his shoulder went back into its socket when
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: he hit the ground. And if that doesn't make you
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: WinCE just thinking about how painful that must have been.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: So he's in mid end with a dislocated shoulder and
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: then hits the tar back and the shoulder goes back
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: in again. So no wonder they diagnosed h with left
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: shoulder trauma. And he was pretty sore and sorry on
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Saturday when we saw him. He did all these media
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: debriefs in a sling, and you knew that thing was
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: going to swell up overnight on the sadurd night with
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: an impact like that, So it wasn't a huge surprise
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: that he was ruled out on for Sunday morning for
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Sundays Afternoons race. But look, we know how good he's
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: been this year. He's had a mostly brilliant rookie season.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: But unfortunately now he now leads the table that nobody
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: wants to lead. He's crashed more than any other rider
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: this year. Now it's twenty four crashes Pedro has had,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: so he certainly found the limits. And someone's probably listening
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: to this going, hang on, how come Juan mir has
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: not on top of this list because every time we
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: see his name, it's Jean Miir crash. Mira only crashes
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: in the races. He doesn't crash in qualify. He doesn't
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: tend to crash in practice either. It's only ever in
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: the races. But a pretty nasty first big bike experience
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: for Pedro or Philip Island. But look, he's twenty. He'll
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: recover fast and it's not going to be the last
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: time we see him see him fast at Philip Island,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and I mean next year, the year after five years
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: after that, he'll be back.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, he will definitely be back, but talking about nasty
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: crashes Maveri, Fergnalez, Marcarebetzeki down that straight into doing corner
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: during this print. Oh my god. If you guys don't
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, obviously not for the fainthearted,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: but you can definitely go to the fox x the
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Twitter account. We've got the footage on this for you
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: guys to see. But Matt, is this the point now
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: where Arrow is becoming dangerous? Because not all circuits are
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: like I'm thinking like Saxon Ring that's like a go
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: kart track or even a Silverstone like they say that
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Philip Alon is the rider's track. This is where they
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: really have to ride the bike. And we saw the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Digitia going into Maverick and dirty Air a mix with
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the Arrow, the speed, the breaking. Is this where Arrow
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: is starting to make the bikes really dangerous.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I don't have starting is the right word. I think
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: we know that this sort of thing can happen, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: it's there's a couple of quarters on the calendar where
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: they turn a worried to aeroplane accidents and bike accidents. Unfortunately,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking term one at Magello because you've got that
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: outside the in side wall, get my directions right on
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the left hand side into a big breaking zone at
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the end of us super far straight at term one,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: and Philip Island's the other one. Because I think anyone
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: that knows Philip Island is a track. That gravel trap
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: at term one you almost need binoculars to see the
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: other end of it because of how massive it is.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: And both Maverick and Marco Betzeki got a long long
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: way into that gravel trap. So look, we know that
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: ero in that corner is potentially a big issue. Now,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: the race stewards did fire Marco Berzeki at fault for
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: that in game along that penalty for Sunday's race after
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: he'd returned from a hospital check in Melbourne on Saturday night,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: So add an insult to injury for Marco. But look,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: there's a reason that we're taking a lot of the
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: era off these bikes in a few years time, because
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: they don't create accidents like this, they just increase the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: percentage chance of them happening. We know Philip Island's a
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: pretty particular circuit. The best thing that happened out of
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: that was both of those guys were okay. They certainly
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: had very different opinions as to who was at fault
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: for it. But I think we're pretty lucky on Saturday,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: because that was pretty terrifying. And I don't know about you,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: but that Motor GP press pack is a pretty you know,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: hardcore group of guys who've been doing it for a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: really long time, so they see things and they don't
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: react like the public generally reacts. Every single journal in
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: that press room pushed their chair out and put their
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: hands to their head when that happened, because we're all
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: fearful of the consequences. So Marco got moving eventually. Maverick
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Vignale is his middle finger seemed to work directly after
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the accident, so that was good. He wasn't particularly happy either,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: but we got away with one there. But there's a
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: reason that we're changing these zero error rules, isn't it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I was really surprised that Marco was declared fit for Sunday,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because I was worried that
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: there was possible concussion, let alone any other injury or
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: damage to his body.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Right now, there's another podcast we could go about forty
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: five minutes on. I do wonder about the Motor GP
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: concussion protocols. Sometimes I think it's a bit of a
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: how you feel like, yeah, I'm fine, okay, good, you
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: can raise. I do wonder how stringent some of these
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: things are, because when he came to a stop in
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the gravel trap, he did not move for about five
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: or ten seconds, so eventually was you know, came off
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: on the stretcher, was able to walk back with his
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: own power, and was able to compete on Sunday. But
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: you would not want to be having too many of those.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: And then of course he did the long lap penalty
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: in the race, actually started the race quite well and
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: then crashed a turn four. So he was someone who
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: was pretty pleased to get on the plane out of Melbourne.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I think someone who didn't start the race very well
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: but definitely made headlines. We've kept you waiting long enough,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Mark Marquez. I feel like we just have to call
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: him the comeback king to They kept saying a mosquito
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to have a bug. Lean on your viazin. You're going
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to pull off a fresh tereir off so you can
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: actually see somehow it magically goes under his rear wheel.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: He does a burnout on the start line, goes from
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: P two to p thirteen on the first lap to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: win the Australian Grand Prix. Man, is that one of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the best rides we've ever seen in Motor GP?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: It's certainly He's one sixty two Grand Prix now struggling
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to think of too many that have been better than that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: But look awesome, writer, fantastic at Philip Land absolutely rubbish
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: at reading the wind because if you look at where
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the wind was going, it was going to know from
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: left to right on your TV screen. He threw the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: tear off directly into the wind. That was his first mistake.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: But the chances of that thing lodging underneath his rear
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: wheel a million to one, and he knew where it
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: had gone, and he was in this conundrum where I've
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: got to sleep the right height device of watching the
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: lights is everyone on the green. He's trying to work
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: out whether he kick this thing out of the way.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: So he kind of knew what was going to happen
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: before the start, and afterwards he was saying he knew
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: it was bad, but he didn't know where he was.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And he got to turn one and he looked up
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and he saw I was with Luca Marini and I
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: was with two yamahas. It's like, well, this isn't good
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: because if I'm down with these guys, I am a
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: long way down the pack. And then within what six
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: laps he was back in the podium fight and had
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to use a heap of tire to get back into
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: that and figured he just had to deal with it
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: later in the race. So look, just an absolute masterclass.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: We know how good he is there. I mean, he's
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: won there multiple times before, but if all the winds
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: he's had there and it's been a pretty special circuit
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: for him over the years. That was quite something because
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised that he won based on how good
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: he is there. I was super surprised that he won
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: in that way. But yeah, just a brilliant ride by
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: a brilliant rider. And look, Joge Martine was right at
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the end of the race and that he said, well,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Mark didn't have anything to lose, so he could be
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: super aggressive with me and I had to think of
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the championship a little bit, which is correct, But I
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: don't think there was any denying Mark on the weekend.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It was just an awesome performance.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, hands down, it was an incredible race to watch
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and like you just mentioned the tires there. Coming into
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: this weekend, we weren't sure what was going to happen
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: because the track had recently been resurfaced, and we knew
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: earlier in the year the superbikes they had to have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that mandatory pit stop because of the tire just chewing
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: through tires and everything. And then you hear Mark who
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: comes from all the way back to take the victory,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and you're thinking, well, it's a lot o races, twenty
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: seven laps the Australian Grand Prix and the lap time's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: not short by any means, So how much was he
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: just going for it and maybe not even thinking about
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the tire wear and tear.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I think he would have been so shocked by
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: what happened off the line that all the pre race
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: plans pretty much went out the window, because there's no
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: point sitting in conserving tire for late in the race.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: When you're sitting down in eighth, ninth, tenth. He knew
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: he had to get back towards the front as quickly
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: as he could, but he also knew that would come
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: at a price because he would not have the optimal
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: level of tile left for the end of the race,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So I think all the best laid plans that he
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: had before the race pretty much went out the window.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: But I've written this before several times this year. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: think he's the best improviser on the grid and that
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: when things aren't going right, he just finds a way
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: because that's what he does. And you know, if anyone
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: was going to extract themselves from a situation like that,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: it was going to be that rider on that circuit,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: and certainly one of his more memorable wins anywhere, I would.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Think, well, let's talk about memorial podiums and memorable wins.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Up next, we have got joining us on the pod
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is after his maiden World Championship podium position Moto two
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: writer Ozzie Who hero superstar Sena Ageous joining us. So,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: guys stay tuned for exclusive chat with Sena Ageus. Alrighty,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Sena Ageus, fresh from your Australian home Grand Prix and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: your first ever World Championship podium, how are you feeling?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: But also has it sunk in yet that you have
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: still on a podium in a Moto too World Championship race?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, only just recently, like the last couple
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: of days. I think it's just because there's another race
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: coming up and you kind of don't want to forget
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: the last fun type thing, so everything needs to start
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: rolling forward and you just need to focus to try.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: And do it again.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: But I definitely didn't sink in the day after the race,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: even so, it wasn't until I actually just got home
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: on Monday night and when my family rolled in from driving,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: we all sat down and rewatched it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that was probably when it sunk in.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: That was going to be my next question because I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: wondered how many times you had rewatched it, because to
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: take you behind the curtain a little bit. Once you
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: got up to third, once Alonso Lopez had crashed, it
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: was a little bit too far away from you to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: see what was going on. But Aldegare and Connett were
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: carving lubs out of each other on the last lap,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and we're all thinking it was going to be the
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: old Stephen Bradbury think where these two were going to
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: take each other off her two quarters from home. So
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: you had all the Spanish journals in the media center like, oh,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: these guys are going to take each other out, and
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: all the Australians are like, go take each other out
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: have you fantastic? It was such a funny scene to
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: see what was going on. But I did want to
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: ask you about crossing the line. I love asking this
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: question of athletes when they've achieved like an amazing thing
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: in their career. You've got all this adrenaline, you realize
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you're on the podium. What are you thinking, Like, what's
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: going through your head? Are you thinking of random people
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that helped you along the way, or you think your
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: family or sacrifice that you know your folks made, or
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: something like this, This huge amount of emotion going through
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: your head take us on the in lap.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I actually couldn't wait to get into park family
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: to see what my old man would say. Honestly, that's
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: actually probably one of the first things I thought of.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: So family comes straight to mine.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And then I looked to my right and then all
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the guys coming out of turn one like over the fence,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: like throwing their shirts around and stuff. So it was like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: oh my god, like everyone's going to be so happy.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: And then I just actually was just thinking a lot
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: about family. But whatever what was going on punching and
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: throwing things out of the line was just whatever was
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: happening in my body.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Nothing was you know, I just couldn't really believe it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I was just checking the screen to make sure it
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: was all good, you know what I mean, nothing had changed,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: so no, it was whatever was going at the minute.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But for sure, first thing was on my mind was
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: to see what my career had to say.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: And also I mean, look, I know you know this
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: because you know how the sport works. But we were
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: just discussing before you came on the list of Ossie
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Ride who've been on their home Grand Prix podium, Stoner, Gardner, Dowan, Miller, Vermuller,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: not you, Ranita, the other Mula and West, Arthur's sisters,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Joel Kelso and now you. It's a pretty amazing group
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: to be part of after your not even full first
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: World Championship season. I mean that's something you'll never ever
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: forget to be part of that crew.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: And it's actually cool that guys like Ant and Arthur
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: pulled one off as well. There's like a fair list
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: of us as well that have had some success down
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: at the Island. So that poster who I'm not sure
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: who made that thing on social media with like all
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: the photos of it that was sick.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: That was a cool photo. So yeah, they told me
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: that in the broadcast.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I said as well, and I was like, yeah, I'm
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: pretty pretty proud to join the crew.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Talk us through the weekend back to the start, heading
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: into your first home Grand Prix. Was it did it
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: feel different for you? Were you more excited or did
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it feel more stressful because you had a lot of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: your friends and family there who have supported you for
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: so long? Does it feel like maybe you had a
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: bit more pressure to have to perform this weekend?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I learned so much at the island because it
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: was the most time I've spent not doing my job ever,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: so like, I did not I didn't see my guys
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: until about midday. I quickly popped in the box at
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: about six o'clock in the evening most days just to
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: do like a little debrief of the day. Other than that,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I was doing events so like, and I felt at
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: the most ad ease of all the GP events I've done,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: So like, when I look at it, do I maybe
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: overcomplicate the ones that are not as hyped up, like
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: because you're in a like obviously these overseas races, I
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: got nothing to do with the country or anything that
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: I'm racing, and I've just in with my guys or
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: looking at my looking at the timesheeting all the data
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you can get from the PDF, so you're always just
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: in the racing mode and you don't really switch off.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: We're in for the violin. I was doing some of
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: the other things.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: I kind of forgot about what was happening, and for me,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: it comes with way less stress, so like I'm actually
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: kind of just looking at that we can go okay,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: like there's a couple of interesting things. So I just
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: had so much going on that it I just forgot
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: if I had a bad session or honestly, I had
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: good I was had good.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Speed all weekend, which helps.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: If I was not competitive, then of course I'd be
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: like being a bit worried, But no, I just had
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: some other things going on.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: But strangely enough brought a sense of calmness.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Especially because all the pr eventually doing with the people,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: you know, all the people or the fans are Australians,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: or even the homecoming right on Thursday, seeing so many
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: fans over at scen Remo. It's just it was just
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: an amazing experience for me. So yeah, come with a
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: new sense of calmness.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I guess, well, in so much positivity as well, like, yeah,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you're busy, but it's all positive busy.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: And you know, it gives you a.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Bit of a boost of energy as well. But that'll
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: be interesting actually, because you're in a pretty busy time
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: of the season right now with this triple header. But
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: maybe at the end of it you might sort of
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: turn around and look back and go, you know, maybe
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I might overthink some aspects of the weekend.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have changed.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: The way that you work. But on that overthinking part,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: what was into just about the race was that you
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: got up to fourth about halfway through, once you got
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: past a Gura and obviously he's got bigger things on
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: his plate at the moment, where he's got a championship
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to try and win, and so you're in this kind
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: of weird race where it was you versus the track
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: and not necessarily going super well to will with guys,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and the podium was ahead of you, but it wasn't
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: quite there. So when you've got more time to think
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: in that situation, you just got to get your head down,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming, but did you see that you were getting
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: towards Alonzo Lopez at that point because the gap did
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: come down pretty significantly, but he needed to help you
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: to get on the podium. Talk us through that last
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: sort of third of the race because you were kind
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of racing by yourself to a degree there.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just when I passed a Gura finally
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: got past him, I was like, Okay, you're going to
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: be pushing your own wind. There's definitely going to be
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: a train behind you, so just you cannot make mistakes.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: And of course on the first couple ups breaking and
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: to all the hairpins as you're hitting the apex, you
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: can hear the other guys getting on the throttle, like
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: in your peripheral areas, I'm lucky. Okay, everyone's still there.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Everyone's still there and just trying to not make mistakes.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: But I was thinking that. I was like, I looked
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: at the lap times we were doing, and the lap
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: time the guest lap time that we had in our
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: plan of what we needed to achieve to not destroy
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: the tire was way slower than what we did. So
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I was behind I doing lap times going like I
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: feel like this is easy, but I'm scared.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Is this like it?
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I'm scared because am I destroying the tire without me
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: even knowing it. So when I passed him, I'm like,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: just try and keep it, And then I just kept
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: doing faster lap times and then I'm on board, I'm
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: growing a gap and I'm like, tire still feels okay,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: because you've got to remember we had no dry time,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: so and Perelli were saying to us there will be
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: a massive problem. Like Perelli, we even, I think at
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: one point even thinking about just making everyone run the
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: hard tire mandatory because everyone's quality tires started eating themselves
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: in a couple of laps. So in our team especially,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: we were so worried, and we had like an ideal
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: lap time that we wanted to achieve consistently that would
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: be safe for the tire and when we'll wait under that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I was so worried. So when I just I just
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: run with it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: I like my first line lap when I was in
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: front of a girl pushed my wind catching Alonso, it
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: was like four tenths quicker than I did all raised
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: and then the next that was the same lap time,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: same lap time, same lat time. So I'm like, okay,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: that's it, You've gone that's it, Like, I can't think
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: about saving the tie now because I'm not going to
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: catch him, and then they're just going to start catching
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: me again.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: So I kind of just went at one point and
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: said this is this will is what it will be.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I kept that thirty one, three, thirty one
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: and four going to the end, and I was catching Alonso,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: but I couldn't quite.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I could see he'd react because you could see his
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: margin shrinking, which put pressure on him.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: But there was at some point there where he reacted
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: and I was only pulling two or three tenths a lap,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: so the gap kind of comes stale.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: And then when he went down, I'm.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Like, okay, just don't don't crash this motorile, Like I
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: do not fuck this up. So that's that's really what happened.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: But it was it was quite a strange race.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I just.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Can't believe that you've just sworn on the Fox Sports podcast,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: so we'll happen to bleep that out. But Okay, this weekend,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you had a really cool special livery or you're honoring someone.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about that design
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and the process of coming up with that This for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Australian Grand Prix.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like when the helmet my helmet company
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: or sponsor, Elis two said to me like they really
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: wanted me because I didn't actually have a plan to
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: do anything special. Honestly, we had so little time during
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: the year to think about it. So when they said, oh,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: we're gonna you have to do it for us, it's
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: good for marketing, blah blah blah, and I said, Okay,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I'm not passing up that opportunity. So when I got
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: the opportunity to do it, I was just was, honestly
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: in my own thoughts for a couple of weeks, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: couldn't think of something to do as silly as it sounds, like,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I'm proud to be Aussie, but I didn't want to
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: just slap something so boring the Australian on my helmet,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: like the flag or whatever. And one animal in the
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: end is exactly what happened.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: But a bit of a different way.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: So I kind of just thought, Okay, what's cool about
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Philip Bail And the first thing that come to mind
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: was watching Casey right there, So I'm like, okay, I
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: met Casey last year. I have a bit of a
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: relationship with him a small friendship. So I was like,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: you know what, let's pick one of my favorite moments,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: which was that Chacaddy two thousand and nine era that
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: all those colors and vibes of that one off and
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I said, okay, let's see if he's keen. So I
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: got the permission to take his boots and gloves and
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: we actually created that helmet together. He was quite busy
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: organizing I think his stuff Ikma and stuff like that
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: that he's doing it they on that beata, so he
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: was quite busy, so I couldn't really design the whole
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: thing with him, but I had many sketches and templates
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: drown and we would just send things fire what's up
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: through over to him and Andrew and they would tell
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: me what they did and didn't like, and we ended
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: up coming out with what we had on Saturday. So
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: it come out unreal and I think everybody loved it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Well, if you're going to do a tribute to any
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Australian writer of Philippil and you picked the right one
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: because he didn't tend to finish it at the other
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: the first in that place. But Cent, I'm conscious of
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: your time, so I'm going to sleep one more in
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: before Ronita raps this. But the twenty four hours after
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: you get your first World Championship podium, I didn't even
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: want to know how many texts and messages and what
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: have you got? But who was that person that came
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: to you or messaged you or got in touch with
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the family where you just think, I can't believe this
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: is actually happening, because I'm sure pretty much everyone in
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: your contact list has got in touch with you in
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the past four days.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, you just come in just getting a small
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: message from Casey, especially saying that he is happy for
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: me and stuff like that. So that was something's something cool,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: especially with running the kit that we did. So he's
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: probably the probably the best message I've received, But equally
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: as much just my following and my friends, a lot
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: of like school friends and stuff like that, Guys that
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: don't normally get to raise me, or people like one
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: of people that went down to the island that have
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: never seen me race before, people like that, seeing them
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: so happy, and yeah, just my normal people just being
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: so excited for me.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Especially it's just.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Really cool that I was already stoked that people that
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: don't get to see me overseas. Got to be there
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: and then to be there on that weekend was just
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: like a bit of a fairy tale ending. Other than
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: getting the win, that was quite special.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: So you're in the middle now of a triple header.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: You're in Thailand currently. How are you feeling going into
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: this Grand Prix and I guess the rest of the year.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Are you feeling more confident now you've kind of got
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that podium under your belt? And is this a circuit
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I guess that you like? Or have you ridden here before?
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I wrote here six six years ago the Asia Talent Cup.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Same with Qatar, but I'm just referencing it to then
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: because this year in Qatar, I started from zero. I
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: don't didn't remember nothing, and okay, this track's a lot
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: more simple than that place. But I've been in the
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: country before, I've ridden around the track, but this machine
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: is so different. So just have to just start again
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: on Friday, more or lesson so where we are, but
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: just hoping that you know, we've gone from having really
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: good speed and such a great feeling on the bike
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: and then he had a really tough round in Japan
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden we're on the podium,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: it's been lumpy, and like, deep down, I've just hoped
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: that we've learned something in these last three weeks have
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: been really important. We've just felt amazing on the bike,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: and we felt totally terrible on the bike, so we've
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: done it, been doing a lot of analyzing. We're just
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: not going with the wind like I. As much as
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: I loved being on the podium, it's such a mad
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: turnaround from how I felt in the bike seven days prior.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of learning going on at the moment.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: So I think we just need to find really learn
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: what's working and what's not, and trying to find trends
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: in different circuits and settings and try and find something
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: that's more stable for the last half of the year
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: because I've shown that if it comes together for me
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: that I can perform. So yeah, I'm just hoping to
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: just try and be consistent.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Awesome, well, Santa, We wish you all the best of
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the remainder of the season. Thank you so much for
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: jumping on the pod, and we can't wait to see
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you hopefully take that w this weekend or in the
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: remainder of the twenty twenty four season.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Thanks guys.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Well, Matt, that was a really interesting interview. It's so
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: funny hearing it from a different point of view. Is
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: some writers, I guess, are really excited and exuberant and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: maybe feel like a home grownd Prix is almost a
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: little bit more stressful for them than a European race.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: But by the sounds like it, he's just super calm
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and casual all weekend, right.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: It's interesting what pressure does to athletes in their home
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Grand Prix or event or whatever it might be. When
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: you're on an international stage. You know, tennis players playing
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: in the Australian Open that are Australians, all that sort
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: of thing. Pressure can be a privilege, it could also
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: be a burden for some people. And you look at
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the way some of the Ossie guys in the World
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Championship handle the pressure of racing at home. They do
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: see it as a privilege. We were talking before about
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: just how available Jack Millery is and trying to be
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: everything for the fans, and you know, obviously Chris was
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: really good at that when he was in the game
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: as well. So it's just cool to it's just cool
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: to see that that pressure brings out the best in people.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And you know, the last two years at philip Island
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: we've had two ossies take their first World Championship podiums,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: with Joel Kelso at now center, so I guess it's
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: working pretty well for those guys.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk on Moto three as well. So, like
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you said, Joel Kelso last year had a super awesome
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: race and this weekend, even in the race he was
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: leading for multiple laps. But it seems like we're seeing
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a very similar story with Joel. Right, he's strong at
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the race and then something happens and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: he just seems to drop back. What's your take on
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: his weekend?
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a bit of a different one I
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: think for Joel, and it sometimes it's a performance issue
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: later in the race and just can't quite hang with
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that front pack. But he got sat up pretty severely
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: at turned two about halfway through the race. And you
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: know what Moto three's like at philip Iland, Like, if
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: you get out of the pack at Philipilo, it's super
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: hard to catch up because most philip Ilo Motor three
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: races tend to be a huge pack disputing things over
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: on the last lap. So unfortunate for Joel that he
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: got pushed back. But one thing we did see was
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: all the hype about David Alonzo. It's pretty justified because
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: he won a Motor three race. You don't see Motor
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: three races one like that at Philip Island and he
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: was absolutely awesome on Sunday and to equal that Rossi
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: record from nineteen ninety seven eleven wins in a single
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: season in a category as crazyly tight as that is,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: he's the next guy like, he's clearly got it. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the post race celebration with his head taped up like
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Valentino in nineteen ninety seven was gold. That was absolutely fantastic.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: So he's got a good sense of humor too. The
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: celebrations are becoming better and better by the race. I think.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's something that we're all excited about with
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: him moving up and progressing, as we haven't seen a
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: character like Valentino until Pedro started to make his way through,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and we don't really have that Inmoto GP. So to
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: see David Alonzo, I guess replicating that and speaking to
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: him on the weekend talking about, you know, when he
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: won the championship or even like his post ray celebrations
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: on the Uni cycle. It's so exciting and it's nice
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to have a character back in the sport because it
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: helps the storyline. It helps everybody kind of get to
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: know who that person is, right.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Well, he's got the combination of the character and the
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: talent right and some people have got too much of
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: one and not enough of the other. He's clearly got
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: it both. And Moto two, as Senna knows, could be
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: a bit of a jungle for guys coming up from
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Moto three. You see if you guys flame out when
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: they get there, but I'd be very surprised if he does.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: He looks like a Motor GP front runner in waiting.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: He's so young still, and you know, I think you
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: look at the way he rides too. His whole advantage
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: of the guys in Moto three is late breaking and
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: that's only going to help you when he gets to
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: the bigger bikes and the heavier bikes, Like he's clearly
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: got something. So looking forward to see where.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: He goes, and also looking forward to seeing how Jacob
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Wilstone does for the remainder of the season. Obviously next year,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: but Matt having his grandma on the grid wasn't that
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: just so sweet?
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I knew you were going to go there. That was
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: so cool. I hadn't realized it at the time. I
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: sort of saw the grid and went, Okay, I'm not
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: sure who that is, but that's fine. I'm sure we'll
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: find out. But you love that, didn't you?
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: It's so nice just to see, like obviously talking with
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Senna having his whole family there, Jack had his whole
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: family there, and obviously Jacob and Joel same thing. And
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it's a big deal for these guys, especially your first
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: home Grand Prix, and obviously his grandparents must have been
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: a huge, I guess guiding role in his life. So
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: to have that, I feel like he's a way to
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: give back and to say thank you. It was really
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: really nice. Even though he didn't have the qualifying that
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: he needed, didn't necessarily get the results that I guess
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: he was hoping for. I think it was still a
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: positive takeaway for Jacob this weekend.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, agree, I think. You know, he had a couple
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: of pretty rough ones outside the points coming into Australia,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: so to you know, never even been to an Australian
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Grand Prix before a little one competing one. So to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: have a better weekend, be around family, say thanks to
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: some people that got in there in the first place.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: So some good memories from him and hopefully that means
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: that Thailand this weekend is a little bit better.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about Thailand, and let's bring Senna back
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: into the chat to talk all about his first Tai
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Grand Prix. Actually, to be honest, he hasn't actually left
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the chat. He's just been sitting quietly in the corner.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: But we can bring him back on now. So sona
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: come back in talk to us TI Grand Prix. So
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: looking at the Brembo report, it's a little bit of
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: a harder breaking for the Moto GP guys, Is it
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the same for you in Moto two?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety nine percent. Sure.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: We will go from the three oh five to the
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: three fifteen discs. We will put the air ducks back on,
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: stuff like that, just to try and get some breaking
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: stability going on, especially with the heat different like Japan,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: we have to in Australia we want run big breaks,
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: but because of the temperature it's not so bad where
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I think it's even a bit more crucial with all
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: the temperature, especially flip breakthrough and stuff like that, So yeah,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: I didn't really know what to expect. We have some
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: more standardized tires in the allocation, especially for Moto two.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: The tires that we were on last week were like
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: tires we've never even we've never even written on spun
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: laps on before. So we have some more standard tiers
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: back in the allocation, which is a bit more familiar,
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: and back to.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: A super hot track surface like we.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Had in Indonesia, so in these Asian countries, So yeah,
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: How much do you have to modify your center for
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: a place like this because we know the ambient there's
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: super super hot, and the way that track is like
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: you were saying, like you know a lot of really
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: heart breaking, it's pretty physically taxing one. So what do
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: you have to do to sort of modify you or
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: you prepare for Sunday because that's doing forty five minutes
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: on a track like that, particularly if you're at a pack,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: that's no picnic, is it.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: I started heat training, adding heat training adaptation training to
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: my program about a month before Indonesia, so three sessions
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: a week, and that was they were just trip fed
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: into my normal program.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: So of an evening before dinner.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I would, yeah, get put my Heat Act session in there,
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: which would just consist of like a refined space with
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: a humidifier and replicate dry or wet heat.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: So I've done a little bit of both.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: So you do one where you're sweating and stuff like that,
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: or you do one where you make the room like
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: really dry or like like you know what I mean,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: like jungly steamy, or make it just barren hot. So
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: like for example, Aragon was just sun hot, like no,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: not humidity, but just playing somewhere these Asian countries, it's
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: like a it's different. So I personally just do it
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: for peace of mind, just to see me getting physically fitter.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: And at the beginning you are terrible, Like you think
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: you're a fit guy, but you put yourself in a
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: respined space with that heat, your efficiency sucks. So once
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: you start that, it's a big slap in the face.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: But if you can just feel ten percent better on
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: that in those letters on Sunday, then it's so much easier.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I've been doing that for a while now,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: so it's important. You can't really just do it. Oh
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: there's a heat a hot race coming up.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Next week.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Let's just try and do something stupid or use the
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: sauna or something like that. It's a bit more complicated
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: if you want to take it seriously. But I don't
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: know if all writers do, but I certainly do.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: It's funny you said that. I was just thinking back
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: to when Chris was racing and he would always come
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: back to Australia before the Asian rounds. And where we
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: live on the Sunshine Coast is very tropical climate. It's
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: a very humid and my brother used to go running
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, the hottest part of
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the day for that reason, that exact reason, purely just
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: to get your body more A client matized and used
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: to it. So it's interesting, how I guess for an athlete,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you think, like you said, you think you're at a
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: certain level, but then you change conditions, you change something else,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you could be completely elsewhere.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: But let's also talk about Moto GP this weekend. So
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: that's obviously what we're previewing, because you're obviously going to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: take the w So that's fine, We've got you covered.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: But what about Moto GP. Do you think Mark Marquez
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: is going to continue his solid run, or do you
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: think that Jugey and Peco are going to maybe get
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: back a bit closer to the title fight but have
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit more of a reserve race on them.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be between Mark and Peco
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: this weekend. They are probably the two best breakers on
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: the calend on on the in motor GP. Peko's unbelievable
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: on corner entry and Mark looks stronger than every one
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: quarter entry. So I believe it'll be between them two
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: this weekend. Mark stun some incredible races here on even
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: uncompetitive machinery, let's say so, Yeah, I believe Mark.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: My money's back on Mark. I think he's got the
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: taste for it now.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I think he's hungry, so yeah, I think you know,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Peko's still obviously got got the championship in mind and
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: stuff like that.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: So with my team, so I.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Think there's pressure in all different ways on each of
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: them in a sense, So I'll put my money on Mark.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting the thing you just mentioned about Peko
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: there is kind of why I think this might be
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: a Peco weekend just the nature of the track. You
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: look back at the super heartbreaking tracks have had this year,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: like he was awesome at Austria, like you just made
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: everyone look ridiculous at the Red Bull Ring, and Japan.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: He was pretty impressive in Japan as well as a
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: type of circuit with those big stops that tends to
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: suit him. But like you, sen Center, he's got this
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: sort of you know, there's this pressure really starting to
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: build now because we've only got three rounds left and
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: you can't just say, you know, I can just match
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Martin this weekend. I can pick up more points next weekend.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Very soon, there's not going to be a next weekend,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: so you know, the pressure is really starting to ramp
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: up for him. But if I was putting not Sentner's
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: hefty salary, but maybe you're very meager one really, So
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: if I was putting some money on anyone for the weekend,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I might stick it on Pecker.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I think stick it on Pecker. That's interesting. We were
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: looking at the results just before we jumped on and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I saw last year Brad Binda was third. So do
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: you think maybe we could see a Brad or Pedro
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: if he's fit enough to ride match? Do you think
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: we could see a KTM closer to the front or
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: is it just going to bed Caddy dominant once again.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I think, I don't know, I know what you think, Cener,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: but it's a track that might lend itself more to
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the kt in because they tend to be a bit
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: better with these straight line breaking tracks, don't they.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I would love for Brad to clean up.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: I'd love to I would give anything to see Brad
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: just have a massive weekend for himself, get another feature
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: race victory and stuff like that for him.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: You know, the dedication he puts in.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: And to try and build a manufacturer and raise the
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: manufacturer level from just his import is obviously a massive
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: task what him and doing, and of course Pedro what
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: Pedro's saying that he wants to bring Katim to the
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: top in the future. So I think, I like, I
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: know Brad more than the writers we just mentioned, so
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: to see a little bit more behind the scenes, or
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: know a little bit more about what's happening on his side,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: I just have a lot a lot more they info
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: and what and where they are at the moment, and
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: I think, of course they need it and.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: He deserves it.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: So I hope he has a result at the end
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: of the year that will be massive for them, but
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Chickatti's Ciacaddi and Peco's Pecker and the track nature, I
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: just think that they I just suppear at the moment,
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: which is totally okay because you know, Chickatti were never
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: always in this position and now they've done such a
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: great job to have such competitive bikes across the different
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: satellite teams as well. So I hope for their sake
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: that they can be up there. But I think those
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: three names that we saw last week out the front
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: are just this year is just they're the benchmark.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Well, either way, I think we're going to be set
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: in for another weekend of awesome racing. So SOMMA, thank
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you once again for joining us on the Fox Podcast.
• 49:02
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